[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2210 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2210

 To ensure that the provision of portable benefits to an individual is 
not considered in determining whether such individual is an employee of 
                   a person, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 8, 2025

Mr. Cassidy (for himself, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, 
 and Mr. Budd) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that the provision of portable benefits to an individual is 
not considered in determining whether such individual is an employee of 
                   a person, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Unlocking Benefits for Independent 
Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF PORTABLE BENEFITS WITH RESPECT TO EMPLOYMENT 
              STATUS.

    A determination whether an individual is an employee of a person 
for the purposes of any Federal law shall be made without considering 
whether such person provides to the individual--
            (1) a benefit or protection that the individual may 
        maintain without regard to whether the individual continues to 
        perform work for such person;
            (2) a benefit or protection of a type that is commonly 
        provided to a full-time employee;
            (3) a contribution, financial or otherwise, with respect to 
        a benefit described in paragraph (1) or (2) that is--
                    (A) made on behalf of the individual by the person 
                in connection with work performed by the individual for 
                the person; or
                    (B) made by the individual; or
            (4) a benefit, protection, or contribution that is a 
        combination of any benefit, protection, or contribution 
        described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3).
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